Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] when [pron] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped only when we told them to leave . |
| 2 | She nodded sagely when I told her of my decision . |
| 3 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 4 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 5 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 6 | ‘ Anwar is my oldest friend in the world , ’ he said sadly when we told him everything . |